Warren Seen

According to PC world, Apple may be considering acquiring Palm (or what’s left of it).

Palm, at least in its early days, also enjoyed the kind of anything-but-Microsoft fan base that has long sustained Apple.

Jobs tried to buy the company in the late nineties, according to the Mercury.
Neither Apple nor Palm has given any sign that there is any basis for the renewed speculation but there are obvious fits between the two companies.

Apple’s Ipod boom can hardly be sustained unless it can head off competition from PDAs and smartphones that can pack music players along with a host a other functions.

Palm itself was slow off the mark in adding tricky telephony technology to its products and Apple would have a hard time starting from scratch in the market.

This would seem to fit in nicely with the recent spate of patents lodged by Apple, which I’ve already talked about here. I can’t see the iPod mutating into a fully fledged handheld, but rather a new device that would include iPod capabilities.

Whatever it turns out to be, it seems something is definitely brewing in Cupertino…